It would be very hard to write a novel of manners of Washington, D.C. using much of this material and have it not dismissed as absurd, but as Leibovich makes very, very clear, many of your worst fears about the nation’s Capital are indeed true –at least the squalid ones having to do with corruption and the worried ones that perhaps most of those folks just aren’t that smart.

Not much sinister in the book ,except that the merger of the Democrats and the MSM is pretty much complete, at least on the social circuit.